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Those who cannot get the vaccine for medical reasons can go to the facility where the quarantine pass is applied when they receive a confirmation from the public health center. However, there has been a report that the public health center does not issue a confirmation even though there is a doctor's note saying that the corona vaccine cannot be vaccinated.



This content was covered by reporter Jeong Da-eun.



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Kim, a terminally ill patient with liver cancer, applied for a confirmation of vaccination exception to the local public health center ahead of admission to the hospice ward on the 15th.



It was to spend a few days before hospitalization with my family.



The public health center refused to issue a confirmation letter.



[Mr. Kim's wife: Before entering the hospice, I received a doctor's note in hopes that I could have a meal with my family... The health center didn't do that. (From the quarantine authority) Get a statement of your choice.]



If it is difficult to get vaccinated due to the administration of immunosuppressants or anticancer drugs, you can receive a certificate of inoculation exception with a doctor's certificate.



The quarantine authorities are guiding that certain phrases should be specified in this diagnosis.



In the note that Kim received from the doctor, it was written, "The cancer has progressed rapidly and is not in a medical condition to be vaccinated."



Still, the public health center demanded specific phrases even with the same content.



'I'm on chemotherapy. It is necessary to postpone inoculation'.



[Mr. Kim's wife: If you ignore the doctor's note and say that it is impossible to do anything other than the one set by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wouldn't it have been decided that it would be easier to work with only the desk administration without talking about the field?



] In some cases, the issuance of the confirmation letter was rejected because it was written 'under cancer treatment'.



[Mr. Yoon/Family of terminal cancer patients: (Doctor's certificate) He is undergoing chemotherapy, vaccine exceptions are written.

'Need to postpone vaccination' is not to say that there is no such thing.] The



quarantine authorities explained that it was a measure to reduce the burden of interpreting each diagnosis at the public health center, but it seems difficult to avoid the accusation of 'desktop administration'.



(Video editing: Park Jin-Hoon, VJ: Oh Se-Kwan)